Tiny glass beads formed in the fires of explosive volcanic eruptions on the moon, and brought back to Earth by Apollo 17, reveal their secrets.

More Amazingly, the samples of material from the moon retrieved by the Apollo missions are still providing new insights more than 50 years later, in this case how tiny glass beads that litter the ...

Over 50 years have passed since humanity last set foot on the Moon during Apollo 17 in 1972. Commander Eugene Cernan, the last man to leave the lunar surface, expressed hopes that humanity would ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

When Apollo astronauts stumbled across shimmering orange beads on the moon, they had no idea they were gazing at ancient relics of violent volcanic activity. These glass spheres, tiny yet ...

It has been more than 50 years since humans first stepped on the moon with the Apollo 11 mission, and many are looking forward to our return with the Artemis III mission. Neil Armstrong became the ...

Man on the moon 50 years later: Luna 15 The space race was still going on between the U.S. and the Soviet Union even as Apollo 11 astronauts were on the lunar surface.

"Apollo 18" is, at root, a haunted house story, in which a small group of basically nice people — temporarily isolated from the outside world — are confronted with cryptic horrors. The aliens who ruin ...

On July 13, 1969, the Soviet Union launched Luna 15, an unmanned spacecraft seen as a rival to the American Apollo 11 mission ...